Again, Deaflympics Tidbits

This will continue until January 16, 2005. So I occasionally will mention about Deaflympics and its events. So some of you who are not interested in sports, there are always other entries to read, right?

Men's Hammer Throw: A friend of mine, Ryan Kelly of Wisconsin won the Silver Medal. Congratulations!! Ryan, you deserved this! You worked hard for the opportunity and I'm happy for you!

Ryan Kelly in Action

Men's Basketball: USA routed Turkey, 116-50. Next!

Women's Soccer: USA continued its hot streak as it routed Australia, 6-0.

Women's Volleyball: Since they lost to Japan, 3-1 -- they are playing for Bronze Medal sooner or later.

To Katie Prins: Just a friendly correction -- there is no country named Taipei. Taipei is the Capital City of Taiwan! And another correction -- you boasted that USA Men's Basketball team never lost in Deaflympics. That is not true. They lost the first game in 1940s or so when it was first played, but from there -- the USA Men's Basketball team hadn't lose a game in years. As for USA Women's Basketball team, they are undefeated in Deaflympics since its first game.

To McCock: Wahhhh! The rule is that the players has to be 55-decibels or above in order to participate in the Deaflympics competition -- don't like it? Go and watch the Olympics. Nobody wanted to hear your cries about the IDC's rules.

Donalda Ammons is now the President of CISS

Donald Tropp

What Happened In Melbourne?

With Ronda Jo Miller, Jenny Cooper, Stacy Nowak, Laurie Anderson, Krystle Berrigan, Priscilla Biskupiak, Dyan Kovacs and Pia Marie Paulone, one would expect the USA Women's Volleyball team to dominate the sport in Deaflympics this year.

After leading 2-0 versus Japan four years ago in Rome, Japan went on a frantic run to shock the USA gals and won the gold medal. This time, I expected the powerful but angry team to dominate the sport completely.

Well, Japan handed USA a loss, 3-1.

What gives? I have a theory but with Rayni reading this as a Hooter, this may be not the grandest idea to spew a conspiracy theory. ;-)

And what baffled me the most is ... Valerie Trofimenkoff. She is on the roster for USA, despite the fact that she is from Mississiauga, Ontario -- last time I checked the map, Ontario is in Canada.

Inquiring mind(s) wants to know.
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Hot Teams To Watch Out In Deaflympics

WOMEN'S SOCCER: USA seemed to follow the pattern of hearing USA Women's Soccer team as they became the hottest team to watch during the Deaflympics after a 4-1 rout of Russia. Here is the great picture. Especially the athletic girl's hair frozen in the air -- such a gorgeous picture.

Celebrating the win over Russia

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL: USA faced Japan and wasted them away in their sleep, 98-41. Next!

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Bring 'em on!

The Cavaliers kept on proving me wrong. They are now 12-3, riding on a 8-game winning streak after posting two important road wins at Wake Forest and at Georgia Tech. They also handed Georgia Tech its lowest offensive output in Division I history.

Up next is No. 1 Duke Blue Devils in Charlottesville. Payback is a bitch, Barry Uhrman.

Reading Debbie's comments in the The Daily Progress brought me the goosebumps but a chilly warning to the damned Duke loyalists as she said:

"It is a great opportunity for us on Friday night, I hope we get a lot of fans out there on Friday night. We need the entire Cavalier Nation to fill University Hall for us, because we are going to get them this time."

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A Message to Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II, you are in no position to decide about the gay rights. You are supposed to be celibate. And the worst part is that you are supposed to be dead a while ago. So drop dead already.

Sincerely,

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Armstrong Williams and Bush

Where art thou, Bush? Why are you hiding behind this growing scandal?

Armstrong Williams, the conservative columnist who was fired after the press learned that he accepted $240,000 from the Bush Administration to promote the "No Child Left Behind" program that Bush supported which, in reality, is disaster in the making for the Americans.

There is a law that does not allow the White House to do the propaganda on subjects like NCLB program, but that does not stop and Bush from breaking the law.

Not only that, it was also revealed that Armstrong Williams, himself an African American, criticized the former President of NAACP for sexual harrassments. Well, well, you know the rules -- when you pointed your finger at someone else, there are three fingers pointing back at you! It turned out that Armstrong himself settled his own sexual harassment lawsuit right before he attacked on the NAACP!

To amuse myself even more with the plight of the conservative columnist Armstrong Williams, Armstrong was a conservative who supported the conservative senator Trent Lott who said that homosexuals should be treated like those who have a problem with "alcohol ... or sex addiction ... or kleptomaniacs." In other words, Armstrong was pretty much anti-gay.

Wanna know about his sexual harassment settlement? He sexually harassed a male trainer. That does not mean anything else, really? Well, there are two other male persons who also claimed that the conservative Armstrong Williams also harassed them. That makes three men that accused Armstrong Williams.

I told you so. Conservatives are often hypocrites, they often think of themselves -- greed. Anything to pull people's lives down in order to be part of the status quo. The invisible status quo that we knew are there but they always denied it from day one.

Now on other hand, what does it has to do with Bush except that his office paid $240,000 to Armstrong Williams to promote the NCLB? Well, there is. Who benefits directly from the No Child Left Behind program? GW Bush's brother, Neil Bush. He founded a software company that helps students to prepare for the comprehensive tests required under the NCLB program.

See? Corruption reigns.

Remember the Clinton Era where the Republicans were harsh on Bill Clinton with Whitewater Scandal that amounted to nothing. Making a mountain out of hill has been the Republicans' theme during Clinton Era. Now with the conflict of interest and propaganda issues within the White House, where is the call for impeachment?

UPDATE: White House claimed that Armstrong Williams was an "isolated incident", reported by FOXNews. Actually, who really believes in FOXNews? They were busted several times for altering the information at times. Sorry I do not believe anything that comes out of White House and FOXNews. As always, McCock is an idiot. Why does he bothers to read a liberal blog?

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Few Interesting Tidbits about Deaflympics

FAVORITISM IN TEAM HANDBALL? Is it only me but I noticed the pattern of selective players from the same cycle of friends. If you look at the current roster, its Rome roster and its Copenhagen roster and observed who's who -- you'll notice that the majority (perhaps 80%) of the players hung out with each other on a daily basis.

RUSSIAN DISQUALIFIED! One Russian wrestler was disqualified after he was discovered to be hearing. What the fuck?

USA MEN'S BASKETBALL: USA 77, Lithuania 72. USA 102, Ukraine 74.

That's it for the day, folks!

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